Recently added articles from The Arkansas Historical Quarterly:
On the Periphery of the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Religion at Harding College, 1945-1969
Oct 01, 2009; ... HISTORIES THAT HIGHLIGHT CONFLICTS between civil rights activists and segregationists in the South serve as stark reminders of the ferocity with which the color line was defended by many white southerners. The names Birmingham, Montgomery, and Little Rock immediately bring these battles to mind ....
Desegregating the University of Arkansas School of Law: L. Clifford Davis and the Six Pioneers
Jul 01, 2009; ... THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT ADMITTED to the University of Arkansas after Reconstruction was Silas H. Hunt, who enrolled at the School of Law in January 1948. That simple fact, and the university's story of how this early instance of desegregation was achieved, have been related in prior ...
The Agricultural Wheel, the Union Labor Party, and the 1889 Arkansas Legislature
Jul 01, 2009; ... DURING THE FIRST WEEKS OF ARKANSAS'S Twenty-seventh General Assembly, convened in January 1889, debate raged over the elections of the preceding fall. A legislative contest in Pulaski County garnered particularly intense scrutiny because ballot boxes and poll books had been stolen after the ...
Miss Sophia Sawyer: Founder of the Fayetteville Female Seminary
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN 1849, NARCISSA CHISHOLM, A YOUNG WOMAN of Cherokee descent, arrived to complete her education at the Fayetteville Female Seminary after spending a year at an academy in Indiana and a summer visiting her sister in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The head of the seminary, Sophia Sawyer, had evidently ...
"Sun stroke & tired out": Chasing J. O. Shelby, June 1864
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN EARLY MAY 1864, BRIG. GEN. JOSEPH O. SHELBY, perhaps the most feared Confederate cavalry officer west of the Mississippi, crossed the Arkansas River with orders to consolidate the bands of deserters, bushwhackers, and partisans that plagued northeast Arkansas and to "occupy the valley of ...